Richmond, B.C.
“I just want to warn you that they’re out there,” the ominous flyer in Richmond, B.C., reads. The ‘they’ is a population of aggressive raccoons that has so far attacked three domestic cats in Richmond, B.C., over the past two weeks, CBC News reported. Wendy Thibeault said she awoke last Saturday morning to a rumble outside her home, where she found a raccoon “tumbling” with her captured 17-year-old feline friend, Kokanee. Ms. Thibeault said she picked up a coiled hose and sprayed the predator, which had a back-up partner hiding under a vehicle nearby, but to no avail. The hissing raccoon made off with her cat, prompting the family to post the flyer and warn other pet-owners in their neighbourhood. Should the raccoons return, her husband, Richard, said he will use a hockey stick to “try to defeat the enemy.”

Regina, SK
The 70-million-year-old “primary killer in the oceans of Saskatchewan” has returned to the province in the form of a 10-metre-long exhibit at Regina’s T.rex Discovery Centre. The replica of the tylosaur, a marine reptile discovered 17 years ago on the shores of Lake Diefenbaker, is the centre’s first cretaceous skeleton, which is “pretty exciting,” general manager Sean Bell told the Regina Leader-Post. “Visitors get a good glimpse at something that would have been terrifying in the water,” he said. “I don’t think anything was safe.” He said the exhibit gives the province a chance to demonstrate that “more than just dinosaurs” roamed Saskatchewan all those millions of years ago.“It’s a remarkable part of our heritage and a reminder that there is still much to be discovered about the past,” Bill Hutchinson, minister of tourism, parks, culture and sport, said in a news release.

Victoria, B.C.
Never mind the drunk tank. The key to calming angry, rowdy, mischievous drunkards is sweetness — lollipops, to be precise. A Victoria city councillor said she diffused tense situations on Canada by handing out red and blue suckers to potentially dangerous, mostly young, men. The Victoria News has reported that City Coun. Charlayne Thornton-Joe and police officers handed out about 11,000 red lollipops on July 1, after hearing about U.K.-based studies that showed the unconventional gesture might be effective. She reportedly hopes the tactic will soon be deployed across the city’s nightclubs and taxi stands, both of which are hotbeds for late-night tomfoolery.